ABSTRACT: The articles are:. 1. Reasonable time and successive proceedings
: a case-study, by Peter Baauw. 2. Criminal justice and the limits of the
freedom of expression, by Chrisje Brants. 3. Towards the decriminalisation of
euthanasia in the Netherlands, by Constantijn Kelk.
4. Recent developments in securing the presence of indicted war criminals
before the Ad Hoc Tribunals : the cases of Ntakirutimana and Dokmanovic, by
Göran Sluiter. 5. Cops Across borders, witnesses in court, by Bert Swart.

ABSTRACT: 1. SANCTITY OF LIFE, DEATH WITH DIGNITY AND PATIENT AUTONOMY : 1.
"Sanctity" and "Quality" of Life: an Historical Review from a German
Perspective, by Albin Eser.
2. Death, Dying, and Dignity, by David Heyd.
3. Patient autonomy in modern Jewish law, by daniel Sinclair.
II. MEDICAL ETHOS, AMBIVALENCE AND DISCRETION:.
1. Euthanasia and the Changing Ethos of Medicine, by Shimon M. Click.
2. Research and the Place of Death in Modern Medicine, by Daniel Callahan.
3."Medical Discretion" in the Patient-Physician Relationship, by Albin Eser.
4. Active Euthanasia, Denial of Dignity and Medical Resoonsibilitv for
Bystander Inaction, by Leon Sheleff.
III. CONSTITUTIONAL, STATUTORY AND PUBLIC POLICY DIMENSIONS: 1. Euthanasia and
Assisted Suicide : the Dutch Perspective, by Ron L.P. Bergshmans.
2. Paternalism and Autonomy in End-of-Life Decision-Making: the Israeli
Normative Ambivalence, by Carmel Shalev.
3. Termination of Treatment. Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in German
Constitutional Law, by Gerhard Robbers.
4. The Legal Bounds of Physician Conduct Hastening Death in the USA, by Norman
L. Cantor & George C. Thomas.
5. Deciding to Die - Law, Medicine and Ethics in Australia, by Norman L.
Cantor.
6. Aid in Dying : Decision-Making From a Legal Perspective, by Hans-Geore
Koch.

Speech, media and ethics : the limits of free expression : critical studies on
freedom of expression, freedom of the press and the public's right to know /
Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, xxi, 216 p.. - New York : Palgrave, 2001.

ISBN 0-312-23607-7

LANGUAGE: ENG

ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. PART ONE: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION : 1. Harm Principle,
Offence Principle, and Hate Speech.
2. The Right to Demonstrate v. the Right to Privacy: Picketing Private Homes
of Public Officials.
3. The Right to Participate in Elections: Judicial and Practical
Considerations.
PART TWO: MEDIA ETHICS, FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITIES : 4. Objective Reporting
in the Media: Phantom Rather than Panacea.
5. Ethical Boundaries of Media Coverage.
6. Media Coverage of Suicide: Comparative Analysis.
7. The Work of the Press Councils in Great Britain, Canada, and Israel: A
Comparative Appraisal.

ABSTRACT: Contents:.
1. Introduction: human rights in healthcare.
2. A right to treatment? The allocation of resources in the national health
service.
3. Ensuring quality healthcare: an issue of rights or duties?.
4. Autonomy and consent to medical treatment.
5. Treating incompetent patients: beneficence, welfare and rights.
6. Medical confidentiality and the right to privacy.
7. Property rights in the body.
8. Medically assisted conception and a right to reproduce.
9. Termination of pregnancy: a conflict of rights.
10. Pregnancy and freedom of choice.
11. The right to life at the end of life.
12. The law and ethics of assisted dying: is there a right to die?

Disabled people and the right to life : the protection and violation of
disabled people's most basic human rights / Clements, Luke (ed.) ; Janet Read,
xv, 272 p.. - New York : Routledge, 2008.

ISBN 978-0-415-40714-4

LANGUAGE: ENG

ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:.
1. Introduction : life, disability and the pursuit of human rights by Luke
Clements and Janet Read.
2. Mending, not ending: cost-effectiveness analysis, preferences and the right
to a life with disabiblities, by David Wasserman, Andrienne Asch and Jerome
Bickenbach.
3. Deadly currents beneath calm waters: persons with disability and the right
to life in Australia, by Philip French and Rosemary Kayess.
4. It's my life - it's my decision?: assisted dying versus assisted living, by
Jane Cambell. 5. Disability rights and resuscitation: Do Not Attempt
Reconciliation? b y Tom Shakespeare and Bryan Vernon. 6. Disability, human
rights and re-distributive justice, som reflections from the North West
Frontier province of Pakistan on popular perceptions of disabled people, by
Shaheen Sardar Ali.
7. Human rights aspects of deaths of institutionalised people with
disabilities in Europe, by Jan Fiala Oliver Lewis. 7. Demostrably awful: the
right to life and the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young
children, by Janet Read and Luke Clements. 8. End-of-life decisions in
neonatology and the right to life of the disabled newborn child: impressions
from the Netherlands, by Jozeph H.H.M. Dorscheidt.
9. The right to life and the right to health of children with disabilities
before courts: some Latin American examples, by Christian Courtis. 12. Access
to care and the right to life of disabled children in Bulgaria, by Boika
Rechel. 13. Unheard voices: human rights issues of disabled youngsters from
Romanian institutions, by Mirela Saupe. 14. The classification of newborn
children: consequences for survival, by Jonina Einarsdottir.